Example sentences of "a [noun] [noun] [to-vb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | FOUR couples who have lived in adjoining houses in Radcliffe on Trent , Notts since 1952 are throwing a champagne party to mark 30 years of being ‘ the best neighbours in Britain . ’ |
| 2 | One hamlet outside Chimoio is said by a nutrition expert to have more maize than it can swallow , or even store . |
| 3 | The motor industry has been chosen as a case study to consider various industrial issues that have affected the British economy during the period of Conservative government . |
| 4 | Despite sore feet and blisters , they completed the 26 and a bit miles to raise thousands of pounds for charity . |
| 5 | And , very exceptionally , a school 's staff might be marginally increased in such a way as to allow time for a curriculum leader to do some leading or for the mentors of new teachers to provide their counsel . |
| 6 | An emergency meeting of the IEA in Paris on Jan. 11 had unanimously approved a contingency plan to take this step in the event of a Gulf war . |
| 7 | Terms include establishment of a $600,000 fund to pay some shareholder claims , and Caci has agreed to reimburse the plaintiffs for reasonable legal fees and expenses up to a total of $573,000 . |
| 8 | The government has now set up a support centre to help such families : ; Fc Good afternoon , emergency unit . |
| 9 | The family of a three year old girl who 's suffering from a rare heart condition has set up a support group to help other sufferers . |
| 10 | However , the IDB President , Enrique Iglesias ( Uruguay ) , stated that Latin American countries were imbued with a " new realism " and were prepared to readjust their economies and welcomed the debt reduction plan of United States Treasury Secretary Nicholas Brady [ see pp. 36541-42 ; 37016-17 ; for Mexican and Venezuelan debt reduction agreements under Brady plan see pp. 37243 ; 37313 respectively ] as a recognition that governments needed a breathing space to introduce long-term adjustment policies . |
| 11 | ‘ I 've devised a board game to alleviate these kind of boring situations . |
| 12 | Section 83(1) of the Building Societies Act 1986 confers on an individual the right as against a building society to have any complaint of his about action taken by the society in relation to a prescribed matter of complaint which affects him in prescribed respects , investigated under a scheme recognised by the Building Societies Commission . |
| 13 | Noting that there might be more roles for AI techniques in maintenance management Squadron Leader Tim Grant , successfully applied for a Defence Fellowship to survey potential applications . |
| 14 | THE judge in the Department of Trade 's bear-raiding case against stockbroker Peter Marks dismissed a defence application to have secret government papers released yesterday . |
| 15 | A portion of the amplification products was digested with Not I and cloned into a plasmid vector to yield 20,000 potentially recombinant independent clones ; of 98 recombinants examined , 41 unique amplification products ranging from 0.8 to 4.0 kb in size ( mean size = 2.4 kb ) were identified . |
| 16 | The package is used to explore a given situation , identify a problem area , then produce a requirements specification for a computer system to effect some improvement . |
| 17 | Where one party to a contract contracts to use certain goods for the purposes of the contract , considerations of title and quiet possession may be irrelevant , but conformity to description , sample , quality and fitness for purpose may well not be . |
| 18 | ‘ Butties ’ — the local term for subcontractors or chargemen — were employed on a contract basis to run much of the day-to-day operations of each pit . |
| 19 | There needs to be er a banking commission to take these functions away from a Bank of England performed so poorly er and was shown to have done by the er b by the Bingham report . |
| 20 | Preobrazhensky had a blanket term to cover two quite different situations : ( a ) the expropriation of the bourgeoisie and feudalists and the gathering of large-scale industrial production into the hands of the proletariat ; and ( b ) the transformation of small-scale petty-commodity peasant production into socialist agricultural production . |
| 21 | Every tortoise will be given a Spring MoT to make sure it is in good condition . |
| 22 | Hartlepool 's Conservative candidate Graham Robb intends to write to borough council chief executive Brian Dinsdale to find out if poll tax payers ' money was spent on a cabaret show to mark International Women 's Day . |
| 23 | One of W Industries products is a virtual reality flight simulator which uses a mock-up cockpit to simulate tactile feedback and a data helmet to provide stereoscopic , full colour vision and stereo sound . |
| 24 | First , you sterilise the water with one of the purification tablets supplied , then filter it through a carbon filter to produce drinkable water for tea , coffee , cold drinks or just for cleaning your teeth . |
| 25 | The report 's recommendations include : an increase in the federal gasoline tax of 20 cents a gallon each year for five years ; a carbon tax to diminish global warming ; more US assistance for overseas development and efforts to limit population growth ; tax and other incentives for environmentally sensitive technology , and development of a national environmental strategy . |
| 26 | At the time I was in public relations with the old National Coal Board , and we had hired the services of a club hypnotist to entertain some of our clients and agents . |
| 27 | Use a rubber hammer or the handle of a club hammer to level each slab . |
| 28 | In ‘ crisis hit ’ Middlesbrough , for instance , the council and Bellway Urban Renewals have launched into a £6.5m partnership to build 140 low-cost homes on a 7.6 acre site at the resource-starved Netherfields estate . |
| 29 | They would perform a lumbar puncture to make sure . |
| 30 | So the main reason , that 's just sorry it 's a long way of getting to it sir but , the main change in circumstance that the county is putting forward since nineteen eighty compared with today is that agricultural policy means that more farmland is being diversified and they feel the need at county level to have a sweep-up policy to control that process . |